Carolina Pizarro

Carolina Pizarro, photo Luca Cirello

photo Luca Cirello

Carolina Pizarro (born 1981, Chile) is an actor, director and teacher and has studied several physical and vocal techniques. The meeting with Julia Varley and her stay in the Hindustan Kalari Sangham Temple, where she studied the martial arts of kalarippayattu and silambattam, provided the pillars on which she has been building her research. Since 2010 she has performed in the project Historia abierta, directed by the Belgian Lorent Wanson, touring Europe and Chile. Carolina Pizarro has taught several workshops and seminars in India and at international encounters, such as Art Space and Piccolo Cirkus in Barcelona. In Chile, she directs a group of university students, teaches storytelling techniques, and has started an international project, Transfer, to invite foreign theatre companies and artists to Chile. In February 2013, she won best actress and best performance awards at the Coquimbo Theatre Festival in Chile. Carolina Pizarro joined Odin Teatret as an actor in October 2015.